Sophia of Wittelsbach

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Sophia of Wittelsbach
Picture of Sophia in the Elisabeth psalter
Born	1170
Died	1238 (aged 67–68)
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Spouse(s)	Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia
Issue	Louis IV Conrad Henry Raspe
Father	Otto I Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria
Mother	Agnes of Loon

Sophia of Wittelsbach (1170–1238) was a daughter of Otto I Wittelsbach, who was Count Palatine and later Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Agnes of Loon.

In 1196, Sophia married Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia; she was his second wife. They had the following children:

• Irmgard (b. 1197), married in 1211 to Count Henry I of Anhalt
• Louis IV (1200–1227)
• Herman (1202–1216)
• Conrad (1204–1247), grand master of the Teutonic Knights
• Henry Raspe (1204–1247)
• Agnes, married twice:
  1. in 1225 to Henry "the Profane" of Babenberg (1208–1228), a son of Margrave Leopold VI of Austria
  2. in 1229 to Duke Albert I of Saxony (c. 1175 – 1261)

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